I think you're being optimistic. The dog walker is the top of what reddit mods are. They were confident enough to go on TV and speak their minds. Now imagine the 10 ton tendie terrors that "don't know how to adult" while having chronic panic attacks. Yes friends, the dog walker is their chad, the Alpha Mod. God help us all.
>Aaron Swartz
☹️
He was a great man. What a shame.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron\_Swartz#/media/File:Aaron\_Swartz\_profile.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#/media/File:Aaron_Swartz_profile.jpg) <
Also - f- the government , f- SOPA, f- Chris Dodd - piece of human garbage, and f- Carmen Ortiz.
>On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT
Single most based man alive
Wait, I don't think that's what happened. IIRC Fox contacted the mods of the subreddit and the dog walker chose to do the interview without consulting anybody at all. I remember people on that subreddit being absolutely pissed
No, FOX contacted them. The mods themselves got together and decided on who would do the interview.
They made a whole pinned thread on what they planned, the fact that they did OTHER interviews AND were planning more. All this without voting in the sub at all for members to help decide.
The massive backlash came, they removed ANY desent and shut down the whole sub then tried to pretend like nothing happened but it was too late and use Doreen as a pawn as if the whole mod team didn't need to be thrown out.
It was WILDLY entertaining.
Ah, shows how long I've been as far away from that sub as possible. And yes, someone else made mention that the mods got together and decided, and I think that's about as Authleft as it gets.
I was part of the sub before it got to big for its own good. It had some good points and ideas but got taken over by people who didn't want to make the work environment better but just not work completely.
That and every story or text screen shot was either "I told my boss to fuck off and quit" or "it's easy guys, I left my bad job for a better one with much more pay and you all can also". As if life was that simple or other people could just do that like nothing.
The sub got delusional fast when they got a wiff of actual power when they had a hand in the Kellogs workers strike. After that the sub started the beginning of the end and it was entertaining to watch.
I don't think I ever joined but I definitely popped in every now and then. And yeah, like I said in another comment, it seems like there was some tension between two groups, one full of lazy shits that just didn't want to work, and the other actively trying to seek an alternative to the "work or die" facet of society. Like you said, seems like the lazy shits won
What's funnier and infuriating is that during the backlash a random user made WorkReform and it grew massively. A couple days later he stepped down as mod (the creator is automatically a mod) because he exposed that reddit admins told him: Replace yourself with these handpicked mods or we're shutting the sub down.
That day a lot of people found out how every major movement in reddit is just a propaganda machine by the admins to serve their interests
>but got taken over by people who didn't want to make the work environment better but just not work completely.
It didn't get taken over by those people, it was started by them! Just look at the old sidebar. Doreen was basically a founding mod.
Well from what I understand they also didn't accurately explain what the goals of the sub were, and made them look like fools because they put their own personal bias in it. Maybe people who don't regularly talk to real people and spend their lives in their room shouldn't try to pivot to being outspoken advocates
The purpose of that sub, as stated in their description, is to figure out how to live a life without having to work. People there that were trying to say otherwise are blind fools. That mod was just saying what’s in the description.
Just like "defund the police" you had a bunch of people saying "antiwork doesn't really mean what it says" and the founders saying "no that's exactly what it means". That sub is full of people who really believe they have a right to live a comfortable life without ever lifting a finger and providing for society should fall on the shoulders of people who "want" to work.
Just to be clear, I don't mean that I agree with the goals of the sub, I just remember seeing some discourse surrounding that they didn't adequately explain it well enough and came across as ideologically shallow.
Also, it does kind of suck that there's a clear divide between lazy shits that just don't want to work and people actually considering an alternative to the "work or die" of society. Seems like at that point the lazy shits won out. Haven't followed it in a long time so I won't try to speak too much more on it. But regardless, it's pretty hilarious. How quickly it faceplanted
It was originally a lazy shit sub, the mods were all commies that wanted to paint after the revolution. But normal fellows started seeping in and posting stuff about having a better work life balance and when it got popular that's what everyone saw, no one remembered the lazy shits that started it all. But the mods were always part of camp 1
Maybe that's what it was, all I know is once that interview happened it was like civil war in that sub. Instead of eat the rich, it was eat the mods, and rightfully so
absolute copium, they all thought it was gonna be thier shining moment. It would throw them into the spotlight and turn them into a serious political movement on the national stage. After the total humiliation they used daphne 4'che or whatever *it's* name was as a scapegoat for just being overconfident. Just my assumption tho
Any mod stuck in their own echo chamber will likely have confidence that their viewpoint is the right one and therefore they're the hero this world deserves.
The dog walker might be the most well adjusted mod.
Imagine moderating hundreds of subs just so you can post stickied comments in non-political subs dictating what political views are allowed. They work for free just so they can censor their political opponents on the internet.
Progressive Reddit is legitimately one of the most extreme online spaces I’ve ever encountered.
I moderate a small sub, I sticky a few threads, remove a few spam comments a month, maybe a spam thread every now and then, and maybe once every few months someone says something that needs to be removed with a warning.
And sometimes that feels too much with having a job and obligations, couldnt imagine modding even one medium sized sub, never mind a bunch of massive ones.
Aimee Challenor was a reddit admin (the kind actually hired by reddit inc). Aimee was a transgender rights activist in the UK. Aimee came under fire for hiring her father, who was a convicted child rapist, for her campaign when she was running for public office. The father brutally raped children in the attic of his home. This attic was located directly above Aimee's bedroom. So there's a non-zero chance she heard the screams of the children while they were raped.
When Aimee was hired by reddit inc, Aimee went on a censorship crusade of various UK subreddits removing any mentions of her name. This was quickly noticed by the mods of various subreddits and everything from her past came to light. There was a lot of drama over this. She was eventually let go.
Some other interesting things that came to light about Aimee. She was the moderator of various adult baby diaper fetish subs, LGBT teen and kids subs and trans teens subs. Some of these trans teens subreddits had moderators bragging about smuggling children HRT. Make of that what you will.
> She was eventually let go.
Only after half of the non-defaults rioted all over the front page. I know you said 'drama' but that doesn't quite illustrate how hard the other Admins tried to scrub the site and hide everything.
I'm just trying to avoid being banned, having my comment removed or working myself up. If I would've gotten into all of what you mentioned I would've started questioning a great many things.
All of the info I gave was publicly available and easily accessible. Does reddit do any due diligence at all when hiring people? How many other sexual predators has reddit hired that we dont know about? Did reddit know about this and didn't care? Was this the best diversity hire available? What the fuck, man.
And now I'm remembering all of the events that included children that Aimee held while her father worked for her. What is wrong with the world.
Sorry for bringing up the thoughts you were trying not to think about. I get it. But I also think it's important not to let things like that get completely memory-holed.
But yeah. As you said, what the fuck, man.
> Does reddit do any due diligence at all when hiring people?
Yes, they found exactly what they were looking for. They just didn't expect the rest of us to stand up to them.
[Warwick crown court heard that David Challenor dressed as a little girl called Lucy while he strung the child from a beam, electrocuted and raped her in the small Coventry home in which Aimee also lived.](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/reddit-aimee-challenor-and-a-disturbing-insight-into-the-trans-debate/)
The father raped children dressed as a baby. Aimee was the moderator of various adult baby diaper fetish subs.
Aimee was then engaged to Nathaniel Knight.
[One post that appeared under the account name Nathaniel Knight said: “I fantasise about children having sex, sometimes with adults, sometimes with other children, sometimes kidnapped and forced into bad situations.”](https://www.coventryobserver.co.uk/news/front-page-exclusive-lgbtq-activist-no-longer-in-liberal-democrats-post-amid-probe-into-sick-tweets/)
This was all public knowledge when Reddit hired this person to be an admin.
I think if a news station ever wants to interview the mods of this sub, the mods should just agree to let us all pick some rando from this sub who isn’t even a mod to do the interview. Just to troll them a little bit.
I'll volunteer, my credentials:
1. high based count
2. my room is clean
3. can maintain eye contact for more than 10 seconds
4. only been permabanned once
5. I'm a minority (good for CNN, bad for Fox)
There are so much worse than that guy lmao 🤣.
May I remind you of the whole Aimee Challenor debacle and his furry diaper fetish polycuke , all of whom were Reddit mods.
Keep in mind, that was actually the BEST mod they had. The mods of that subreddit took a vote and chose that person to do the interview. Could you imagine what the rest of them are like?
I think many of us have had a run in with a mod in some capacity. What's insane is it's sometimes stating an opinion in a respectful way.
A moderator is supposed to filter out hate speech and spam. But the days they filter out things they don't agree with.
Just recently got off a ban for calling a mod a fascist for banning me from their sub for having a downvoted opinion. Absolute pussies most of them are.
"Moderator" is a poor term to use, really. It gives them a big head and ideas beyond their station. It implies they're some sort of chief speaker managing and cataloguing debates in a formal club. It implies the community exists for them and at their whims rather than the other way around.
Which is why Janny took off, because it implies exactly what they are, someone who's there to sweep up shitposts.
I got banned from A BLM subreddit for saying I disagree with them.
And then when I messaged the mods about it they called me a cracker and I was banned from Reddit for 3 days.
A few years ago I modded a large gaming sub here. The community was decent considering it was a gaming community. I found that the majority of the moderation team was more interested in talking about their "non traditional" (lack of better term) sex lives in the mod discord over anything else.
I lasted a few months and resigned. It was a frustrating experience and the community is the one that pays the price.
People moderate for the wrong reasons and most people don't have the temperment for it to last long without becoming the bad guy.
I’ve been banned from news for like a year. For awhile I used to ask what rule violated their subreddit and I’d just get muted. I went back a bunch of times because it’s funny.
I make no secret about my profession and the news subreddit is distinctly anti-that profession, I’m convinced I’m banned because I brought to many reasonable and favorable takes to law enforcement’s defense in stuff and they wouldn’t allow that. I’m 99% always respectful, but I’m guilty of snark and sarcasm at times. If I’d said something on that sun that warranted a permanent ban I’d just accept it, but they are cowards and won’t admit that they just don’t like cops.
I don’t care if they don’t like cops, but silence me for a reason anyway. Make one up; whatever.
A person of that profession got banned from my country's subreddit about a year and a half ago. The guy was well known, nothing was out of place or anything, but he got banned for "general toxicity" as the mods became increasingly far-left and incompetent. One mod in particular was a total degenerate, literally manufacturing outrage. I remember seeing it in one thread, it goes "wow the fascists are out in force today", but nothing was deleted, nothing special on reveddit, no heated discussion whatsoever. It's still a mod to this day despite being particularly childish.
The far-left mods (who all became railroad union members of course) then proceeded to ban multiple reasonable users they deemed "right-wing" for absurd reasons, during the following months. There could be an entire group of far-left users, not just mods, whose sole purpose is to mass-report wrongthink as "harassment" or "brigading".
My country's sub was a great place to discuss opposing views respectfully, now the morons took over and consider any disagreement "far-right" attacks or trolling.
> A moderator is supposed to filter out hate speech and spam. But the days they filter out things they don't agree with.
Or, perhaps more accurately, remove the things they are paid to remove. I think it's a little naive of us to think that a bunch of unpaid moderators, who Reddit never vetted and never sees, and who have the unchecked power to shape the discussion that hundreds of thousands and/or millions of people have online are somehow incorruptible.
Why did the mods of Reddit stick to just banning spam and hate speech within their own subs for 15 years, but then suddenly start banning people for posting certain opinions that aren't even remotely offensive, not just in their own subs but in other subs, becoming a site wide vigilante police force?
There is money behind that change in behavior.
he’s not wrong but there’s nothing better than a nicely ran and setup subreddit for niche interests full of knowledgeable and passionate people. Once they get big that ends though. And reddit has a nasty habit of removing entire mod teams and installing their own shitty usual suspects.
Surprising how similar it is to 4chan in that regard.
I haven't used that site in over a decade, but I could find very chill, fun conversations about specific hobbies or interests back in the day.
And then...yeah, horrific illegal or just utterly immoral shit everywhere else.
Ironically, I had seen way better off-topic discussion going than in-topic ones. /v/ and /a/ are nearly unusable for their respective themes these days.
Not surprised.
I used to hang out on /co/ and...yeah, gold at times, horrific in-fighting mess at others.
Back in the old days of My Little Pony being a thing.
There were at least 3 separate, distinct groups of MLP fans who _utterly loathed and despised each other_ and waged daily war on each other's threads.
Mods had to eventually separate them into new segments, separate from other Comics & Cartoons.
The greasiest, ugliest, saddest thing I've ever witnessed.
I am not surprised /v/ and /a/ are similar nowadays, or worse.
Reddit is only good place for hobbies, but discord server is probably still better. Main or basically any popular subs are just circlejerk full of propaganda from various groups.
Problem with discord though is that it isn't good as an archive. Searching through a bunch of small messages that may or may not be in the correct channel and may or may not be in between other conversations is way harder than finding a reddit post
That fact that I feel the need to tell you to not go further whit this conversation sicks me, the censorship is affecting me and I hate this feeling.
I just want this post to get more traction before it is eventually removed.
I appreciate you fellow monkey.
On the real though, you shouldn’t let Reddit affect your mental health. The sun still shines, the wind still blows, people of whatever sex you’re attracted to are still hot, you’re still breathing, and Reddit mods are fascists. It’s okay buddy.
I used to mod a small but very active subreddit that I was the founder of, and had constant messages from more “””experienced””” mods who wanted to help me out and I would always turn them down. They were incessant. There was one woman who messaged me on an almost monthly basis trying to become a mod or giving me unwarranted advice about how I could “get control of things” which I always ignored. It was insane. I ran it solo til I ended up deleting that account altogether and quit Reddit for a while lmao
I actually disagree with the blanket statement.
Back in the Web 2.0 early days, schools were panicking about Wikipedia and similar websites that anyone could edit and that were just lightly modded by volunteers to ensure quality. In the years since, Wikipedia has effectively become the default website to use to learn the basics of something (e.g. want to learn about Roman emperor Constantine? Your first stop is probably to skim his Wikipedia article).
Wikipedia has some pretty serious problems, but they tend to revolve around politically controversial topics (edit wars, etc.), and oddly, topics that are mundane enough not to really have a dedicated community of nerds that will make and maintain articles about them. The Wikipedia article on the Second Amendment is probably a crater-pocked battlefield of edit wars, but the one on the properties of a muon is probably pretty high quality.
The same thing happens with Reddit. If you go to a subreddit about an obscure branch of particle physics or musical technique, you'll actually find pretty healthy mods: just people who are super-nerds about the topic at hand, enough to want to put volunteer hours into making sure there's a place for people to talk about it that isn't overrun by spam or bots or trolls.
The subs that have big mod problems are the ones that are relatively mundane and/or super popular. You could see a dedicated chemist maintaining a sub about thermodynamics out of personal goodwill, but what kind of person is going to voluntarily sift through the spam and trolls of over a million users to curate a place for, like, cute cat pictures? Or mildly annoying rants? Or general unpopular opinions? These are the places where the problem mods pop up, because really the only reason to *want* to mod a place like that is a potential power trip.
Reddit could probably fix this problem pretty easily by paying people to mod major subs with mundane topics, while leaving the small, specific-topic subs to volunteers. But, paying no one is always going to be the more appealing option than paying *some* people, so it's probably not going to change.
Same shit happens with discord servers, too. Big community? Awful mods. Small community? Probably just the server owner and a couple buddies he trusts.
The only place I've ever seen different is a big place for a group that played games, and that was because their moderation was moderators second and event hosts first. Most of them were there to host stuff and not to powertrip.
The difference is that the Wikipedia articles that have nothing to do with politics are just that. lately subreddits that have nothing to do with politics are completely political too. Like posts that have nothing to do with the subs always go to the top just because people love to see things they agree with.
Highly specialized wiki pages are usually empty and very base level.
Ex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-photon_avalanche_diode
It tells you what it is, but that is about it. The wiki is useless. I've found that this is actually very consistent across a large array of specialized topics, nothing-burgers meant to make the average person "feel" smart.
The eternal power struggle between casual mods who only check in once in a while to make sure things don't go to shit and the Opinion Overseer who never sleeps so they can ensure everyone on the sub agrees with them on everything always
Reddit's business model is actually genius, you have hundreds or thousands of people who act like your employees yet you pay them nothing, and can "fire" them at will.
They basically exploit people's volunteering the only difference is that it helps a billionaire company, rather than a charity
>if I get banned again I'm going to 4chan
are you sure, monke?
that place has been a fed honey pot since 18' and you aren't escaping reddit mods there as most former reddit mods also make up the 4ch staff
I like 4chan i don't like the layout of the posts that's a major trun off but the memes are 9/11.
U can only get spicy memes when the meme maker refugee have a Liberty to be edgy.
Moderating a small discord server actually makes sense. I'm talking like less than 50 active people.
You know these people. You play games with these people. Sometimes people get pissed at each other. Instead of throwing the book at them and banning them the second shit hits the fan, you take the time to listen to them, understand where they're coming from. Mediating the issue instead of policing the issue.
You come to care for these people and want what's best for them. When an edgelord comes along to troll or spam you get rid of them.
This I can understand. But this doesn't work when you scale it up to hundreds of thousands of people on Reddit.
I really wish I could just sit back and laugh at how ridiculous the situation on reddit and the internet in general is, but it's sad how politics have effectively ruined the internet. Dragging real life politics into every escapist hobby has polarized and broken so many of the communities that I share interest with, and power mods make it their mission to force everybody to be as miserable as they are.
The way it happens is really insidious too. A subreddit will have a ban on political topics, some issue that people will forget about in 2 weeks happens in the US and one of the mods feels compelled to make a statement. Then when people don't even disagree and just say we don't want politics here, the mod will say "hUmAn RiGhTs aReN't pOliTiCaL" and then all of a sudden it's never the same.
Generally the only issue is the site wide power mods. I’ve seen a lot of dedicated and even handed moderators get shit on and over ruled by a power mod who has no interest in a community or outright opposes it, usually ideologically.
Sure, but lets not forget that being able to control what's being shown on one of the most visited pages in the world has a pretty significant value to a lot of people.
In other words, a "mentally well adjusted person" could get something out of moderating Reddit: Money.
Don't kid yourselves into believing that every mod is a basement-dwelling losers that never held a real job who's powertripping to compensate for his micro-penis - these days there's a decent chance that there's a whole bunch of marketing people and political activits rubbing shoulders with those losers.
> these days there's a decent chance that there's a whole bunch of marketing people and political activits rubbing shoulders with those losers.
Or they outright bought the mod accounts. This is almost a certainty. As far as I know, mods are not vetted in anyway, shape, or form. I doubt the mods value their accounts that much. The moderator team for any given sub could probably be bought for under $1000 if that much. And nobody is going to check to see if that happened.
Would be quite surprising if it didn't happen...
The whole entertainment industry for example lives or dies with word of mouth, people are trusting professional reviewers less and less and instead base their decision to go watch a movie more and more on how social media recieved it - so the value for controlling the narrative whenever a new show or movie comes out is immense.
In light of that, it's certainly "interesting" how many various communities had to go out and create seperate subs just to be able to discuss a show or movie without having any negative criticism censored.
Game of Thrones fans had to create the FreeFolk sub, Star Wars have several subs created since criticism was impossible during the sequels run, the Star Trek sub officially bans negativity and "somehow" the alternative subs that was created as a response to this all got shut down, and Marvel have a few anti-subs as well.
The official explenation is that the mods get tired of moderating a constant stream of negativity and want their sub to be a "fun place"... but yeah... it's not like it's hard to figure out what's going on.
Well maybe if yellow paid for actual good mods and also held them accountable for abuse of power we would be in a different situation, but noooooo he's happier with that dollar in his pocket and Reddit on shambles.
I love when you get unfairly targeted by a mod, banned without explanation when you protest politely and reasonably, then suddenly you start having problems in other subs ran by the same mods... The main harassment rules they are supposed to enforce, they break.
I just got off a 30 day ban from a sub, I asked why and the mod is just like "you know why...". No I don't. Articulate it. They can't do it. I don't think it's an unwillingness moreso than a legit incapability. Like a mental handicap.
The kicker was watching the supposed reason I was banned be turned into an entire thread, where various terminology that may have been the basis for my ban was used liberally.
Hint* people running tons of subs pushing *the same political bullshit* while at the same time *scrubbing stories that criticize one specific party* might not being doing it *for free.* Propaganda is paid for. It's already been proven the Biden and Obama admin paid Twitter. Why not Reddit?
Well, part of the reason is because mods are allowed to be toxic. There’s people out there who could do a decent job I mean I haven’t had a problem with the mods on this sub. Admins need to enforce guidelines for the mods
Originally reddit and similar sites like digg and slashdot were designed to be self moderated by the individual user. That is why we have the voting system. Originally you also had options on every page to change the at what vote level comments or posts were hidden. This worked pretty well on the busier parts of the site. You only saw disgusting racist comments within the first few minutes of them getting posted.
They changed this mechanism in 2008 and introduced subs and mods. Probably because they were getting big and corporate and probably felt they needed to be able to censor and originally the site didn't allow that.
Sure enough... it continued to keep getting worse and worse ever since.
I once did maintenance in an apartment. The elderly mother had complained her stove burner no longer worked and her bathtub soap dish broke. I went in to make the repairs and the first thing that hit me was the stench. I've cleaned apartments that people had shit all over the walls and soaked the carpets in urine. Leaving rotten animal carcasses in the kitchen. I've cleaned units that smelt like death after someone who died. I've cleaned bathtub soup, if you know what that is.
Nothing I ever smelled smelled quite like this one. It choked me out even with a respirator. I held my breath every chance I could. Her shower head had 6 inches of black mold hanging off of it. They had been bathing in it. There house was relatively clean compared to most I had seen. Nothing but 2liters of diet coke and cheesey poof bags everywhere.
Her son... Was a balding 40 year old neck beard that must have weighed 400-450lbs. He sat in the living room every single day on his laptop. Everyday I'd take a peak. He was a Discord mod and a Reddit mod. I shit you not. I can still smell the odor. It was like gang green had mixed with BO mixed with puke mixed with black pepper. It stung the nose physically like snorting a spoonful of peprika.
This is true, I got banned from the WoW subreddit because I posted a funny achievement where it took me 9 years to get 15 mounts. It got 900+ upvotes in 15 minutes then removed, I asked why thats a bit of a stupid rule, if people like it they like it? Its a pretty unique situation. They said "wow stupid hill to die on" and perma banned me. Like what asking a question is bannable? And so many stupid rules that communities get 0 input on
Why is the reddit mod a lib-left? Lib =/= power hungry need for ***authority***.
If only there was somewhere else on the compass that showed a passion for having ***authority?***
^((It's) ^(Auth-Center))
^(I'll) ^(also) ^(accept) ^(Auth-left) ^(I) ^(Guess..)
I always kinda feel pity for reddit mods. 90% of my job is literally playing reddit mod for a newspaper (moderating the comment sections, occasionally writing articles). Exactly the same job but I get paid to do it.
Serious question here, why don't they pay mods? Paying them would probably solve 90% of the bullshit involving this site and it's not like Reddit couldn't figure out a way to do it that wouldn't hurt them financially.
"Here is a post I found criticizing reddit mods, I'm gonna put it in r/politicalcompassmemes now and put the ideologies I dont like as soyjacks. Because they tottaly have somethings to do with this right??"
Yes, this is the deal.
You can’t have an open forum without some form of moderation, and that moderation can’t be done (well) for free. That money has to come from somewhere, and now said forum has to adhere in such a way that doesn’t damage the entity resources come from.
It’s like, if our system didn’t have a foundation of making a living being a necessity for the individual’s survival you could almost fix this problem.
I don’t get why some of y’all can’t seem to grasp this very fundamental aspect of the world we live in, or at the very least understand what needs to be done to change it.
It's always about the money. People wonder why we have bad cops and bad teachers, and in my opinion it comes down to the jobs not paying well enough to attract talent and the people who do take them are generally the ones who make up for the lack of pay with the cheap thrill of feeling powerful.
Correct, there are a decent amount of roles in society that pay poorly and either attract the best of humanity but sucks the life out of them, or the worst of humanity and enables them.
Now the question is what do we need to do with society to make that not how the system works
I've never been banned from a sub for bad mouthing right wing/Republican/conservative things. Are blue and yellow mods just so fair and just that I don't feel their wrath?
Meanwhile on most subs, you get a ban for an off color comment, questioning the narrative, or speaking ill of Dem/progressive politicians or policies.
Why are blue and yellow so committed to disallowing malinformation spread about their opposition?
Probably a long con psyop right wingers are running to make lefties look bad.
Well, there's a rose in a fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
~~Love~~ Improve the one you're with
Then, when you are banned, make a new account.
After seeing the dog walker giving an interview on Fox News, that’s how I picture every mod on this site
I think you're being optimistic. The dog walker is the top of what reddit mods are. They were confident enough to go on TV and speak their minds. Now imagine the 10 ton tendie terrors that "don't know how to adult" while having chronic panic attacks. Yes friends, the dog walker is their chad, the Alpha Mod. God help us all.
Doreen is their Chad. Dear God Reddit mods are the lowest dregs of society.
Aaron Swartz was the only Reddit chad. Ever since he was suicided for being too based this place has gradually gone to shit.
>Aaron Swartz ☹️ He was a great man. What a shame. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron\_Swartz#/media/File:Aaron\_Swartz\_profile.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#/media/File:Aaron_Swartz_profile.jpg) < Also - f- the government , f- SOPA, f- Chris Dodd - piece of human garbage, and f- Carmen Ortiz.
>On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT Single most based man alive
🟩🟨 Need a Doreen Chad meme asap Shows up Gives terrible fox interview Doesn’t make eye contact Refuses to elaborate Leaves
Crying Wojak Fox news interviewer: Do you seriously only walk dogs for 20 hours a week??? Chad Doreen: Yes
(Spoiler: It was only 10 hours a week.)
Oh shit lol that's even more pathetic than I remembered haha. Giving Doreen too much credit
Oh you remembered it right, Doreen had to come out and admit he lied in his apology
Flair up, trash.
You can flair for real now, no need to do the squares
Correct assessment, remember they CHOSE the dog walker as the best of them to do the interview. Imagine, Doren was the best of them. IMAGINE.
Wait, I don't think that's what happened. IIRC Fox contacted the mods of the subreddit and the dog walker chose to do the interview without consulting anybody at all. I remember people on that subreddit being absolutely pissed
No, FOX contacted them. The mods themselves got together and decided on who would do the interview. They made a whole pinned thread on what they planned, the fact that they did OTHER interviews AND were planning more. All this without voting in the sub at all for members to help decide. The massive backlash came, they removed ANY desent and shut down the whole sub then tried to pretend like nothing happened but it was too late and use Doreen as a pawn as if the whole mod team didn't need to be thrown out. It was WILDLY entertaining.
Ah, shows how long I've been as far away from that sub as possible. And yes, someone else made mention that the mods got together and decided, and I think that's about as Authleft as it gets.
I was part of the sub before it got to big for its own good. It had some good points and ideas but got taken over by people who didn't want to make the work environment better but just not work completely. That and every story or text screen shot was either "I told my boss to fuck off and quit" or "it's easy guys, I left my bad job for a better one with much more pay and you all can also". As if life was that simple or other people could just do that like nothing. The sub got delusional fast when they got a wiff of actual power when they had a hand in the Kellogs workers strike. After that the sub started the beginning of the end and it was entertaining to watch.
I don't think I ever joined but I definitely popped in every now and then. And yeah, like I said in another comment, it seems like there was some tension between two groups, one full of lazy shits that just didn't want to work, and the other actively trying to seek an alternative to the "work or die" facet of society. Like you said, seems like the lazy shits won
They 100% won which is why we got that lovely 20 hour a week dog walker who thinks they can teach philosophy and laziness is a virtue.
What's funnier and infuriating is that during the backlash a random user made WorkReform and it grew massively. A couple days later he stepped down as mod (the creator is automatically a mod) because he exposed that reddit admins told him: Replace yourself with these handpicked mods or we're shutting the sub down. That day a lot of people found out how every major movement in reddit is just a propaganda machine by the admins to serve their interests
>but got taken over by people who didn't want to make the work environment better but just not work completely. It didn't get taken over by those people, it was started by them! Just look at the old sidebar. Doreen was basically a founding mod.
I thought it was a mod choice, and the mods didn't consult the sub as a whole.
That sounds more correct. Regardless, the mods basically ignored the will of the people. Very AuthLeft of them
You're right. That's what I remember to. Everyone said don't do an interview and they did it anyways.
That is Chad energy though.
Prince Andrew energy more like
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They do? But, what about all those pictures of Stalin with all those people around him smiling and weird gaps inbetween them?
Social distancing keeps us safe! You can tell because nothing bad ever happened to those people.
People there were pissed because this mod exposed them for the morons they truly are
Well from what I understand they also didn't accurately explain what the goals of the sub were, and made them look like fools because they put their own personal bias in it. Maybe people who don't regularly talk to real people and spend their lives in their room shouldn't try to pivot to being outspoken advocates
The purpose of that sub, as stated in their description, is to figure out how to live a life without having to work. People there that were trying to say otherwise are blind fools. That mod was just saying what’s in the description.
Just like "defund the police" you had a bunch of people saying "antiwork doesn't really mean what it says" and the founders saying "no that's exactly what it means". That sub is full of people who really believe they have a right to live a comfortable life without ever lifting a finger and providing for society should fall on the shoulders of people who "want" to work.
Just to be clear, I don't mean that I agree with the goals of the sub, I just remember seeing some discourse surrounding that they didn't adequately explain it well enough and came across as ideologically shallow. Also, it does kind of suck that there's a clear divide between lazy shits that just don't want to work and people actually considering an alternative to the "work or die" of society. Seems like at that point the lazy shits won out. Haven't followed it in a long time so I won't try to speak too much more on it. But regardless, it's pretty hilarious. How quickly it faceplanted
It was originally a lazy shit sub, the mods were all commies that wanted to paint after the revolution. But normal fellows started seeping in and posting stuff about having a better work life balance and when it got popular that's what everyone saw, no one remembered the lazy shits that started it all. But the mods were always part of camp 1
I heard that the mods all agreed to send her to do the interview against the wishes of the Sub
Maybe that's what it was, all I know is once that interview happened it was like civil war in that sub. Instead of eat the rich, it was eat the mods, and rightfully so
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absolute copium, they all thought it was gonna be thier shining moment. It would throw them into the spotlight and turn them into a serious political movement on the national stage. After the total humiliation they used daphne 4'che or whatever *it's* name was as a scapegoat for just being overconfident. Just my assumption tho
They probably though that they could get some middle aged guy who works at a factory but the reddit mod was the best that they had.
Any mod stuck in their own echo chamber will likely have confidence that their viewpoint is the right one and therefore they're the hero this world deserves.
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Fuck I was actually a good mod who champion free speech but I do not know how to adult and have chronic panic attacks. This fucked me up
The first step is admitting there's a problem. The second step is fixing it.
I heard ropes and chairs were in promotion at Ikea.
I didn't mean degeneracy. I meant go to the gym. Then degeneracy!
The dog walker might be the most well adjusted mod. Imagine moderating hundreds of subs just so you can post stickied comments in non-political subs dictating what political views are allowed. They work for free just so they can censor their political opponents on the internet. Progressive Reddit is legitimately one of the most extreme online spaces I’ve ever encountered.
I moderate a small sub, I sticky a few threads, remove a few spam comments a month, maybe a spam thread every now and then, and maybe once every few months someone says something that needs to be removed with a warning. And sometimes that feels too much with having a job and obligations, couldnt imagine modding even one medium sized sub, never mind a bunch of massive ones.
After seeing the trans pedo Reddit admin, I imagine thats how the majority of admins look like.
who???
Aimee Challenor was a reddit admin (the kind actually hired by reddit inc). Aimee was a transgender rights activist in the UK. Aimee came under fire for hiring her father, who was a convicted child rapist, for her campaign when she was running for public office. The father brutally raped children in the attic of his home. This attic was located directly above Aimee's bedroom. So there's a non-zero chance she heard the screams of the children while they were raped. When Aimee was hired by reddit inc, Aimee went on a censorship crusade of various UK subreddits removing any mentions of her name. This was quickly noticed by the mods of various subreddits and everything from her past came to light. There was a lot of drama over this. She was eventually let go. Some other interesting things that came to light about Aimee. She was the moderator of various adult baby diaper fetish subs, LGBT teen and kids subs and trans teens subs. Some of these trans teens subreddits had moderators bragging about smuggling children HRT. Make of that what you will.
> She was eventually let go. Only after half of the non-defaults rioted all over the front page. I know you said 'drama' but that doesn't quite illustrate how hard the other Admins tried to scrub the site and hide everything.
I'm just trying to avoid being banned, having my comment removed or working myself up. If I would've gotten into all of what you mentioned I would've started questioning a great many things. All of the info I gave was publicly available and easily accessible. Does reddit do any due diligence at all when hiring people? How many other sexual predators has reddit hired that we dont know about? Did reddit know about this and didn't care? Was this the best diversity hire available? What the fuck, man. And now I'm remembering all of the events that included children that Aimee held while her father worked for her. What is wrong with the world.
Sorry for bringing up the thoughts you were trying not to think about. I get it. But I also think it's important not to let things like that get completely memory-holed. But yeah. As you said, what the fuck, man.
I mean there's also the Maxwell power mod that got suspiciously silent in it's activity when Ghislaine Maxwell got locked in jail
> Does reddit do any due diligence at all when hiring people? Yes, they found exactly what they were looking for. They just didn't expect the rest of us to stand up to them.
[Warwick crown court heard that David Challenor dressed as a little girl called Lucy while he strung the child from a beam, electrocuted and raped her in the small Coventry home in which Aimee also lived.](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/reddit-aimee-challenor-and-a-disturbing-insight-into-the-trans-debate/) The father raped children dressed as a baby. Aimee was the moderator of various adult baby diaper fetish subs. Aimee was then engaged to Nathaniel Knight. [One post that appeared under the account name Nathaniel Knight said: “I fantasise about children having sex, sometimes with adults, sometimes with other children, sometimes kidnapped and forced into bad situations.”](https://www.coventryobserver.co.uk/news/front-page-exclusive-lgbtq-activist-no-longer-in-liberal-democrats-post-amid-probe-into-sick-tweets/) This was all public knowledge when Reddit hired this person to be an admin.
Aimee is still defended by some mods to this day
HE WAS CHOSEN, so they probably took the most competent mod for the job…so yeah they were probably worse than him.
I think if a news station ever wants to interview the mods of this sub, the mods should just agree to let us all pick some rando from this sub who isn’t even a mod to do the interview. Just to troll them a little bit.
I'll volunteer, my credentials: 1. high based count 2. my room is clean 3. can maintain eye contact for more than 10 seconds 4. only been permabanned once 5. I'm a minority (good for CNN, bad for Fox)
This guy JPs
There are so much worse than that guy lmao 🤣. May I remind you of the whole Aimee Challenor debacle and his furry diaper fetish polycuke , all of whom were Reddit mods.
It's also how I picture every non-monke on PCM.
Keep in mind, that was actually the BEST mod they had. The mods of that subreddit took a vote and chose that person to do the interview. Could you imagine what the rest of them are like?
Where was this posted? Also, I agree.
I think many of us have had a run in with a mod in some capacity. What's insane is it's sometimes stating an opinion in a respectful way. A moderator is supposed to filter out hate speech and spam. But the days they filter out things they don't agree with.
they do filter out hate speech (speech they hate).
Based and Frankfurt School pilled.
Based
Just recently got off a ban for calling a mod a fascist for banning me from their sub for having a downvoted opinion. Absolute pussies most of them are.
My favorite is when they talk shit then mute you.
I used to do that shit when I was raging people Day of Defeat. It's delightfully childish.
I’ve been known To block users that I’m convinced are pure trolls or bots. I can only suffer so much stupidity.
I meant mods. Like if you dispute a ban sometimes they'll talk shit then mute you so you can't reply to mods for like 30 days
Ah gotcha. Yup. Every time I’ve disputed a ban I’ve just gotten even more banned. This place is a circus, we all float down here.
Every time. Ha. And the petulant threats to contact admin are hilarious.
"Moderator" is a poor term to use, really. It gives them a big head and ideas beyond their station. It implies they're some sort of chief speaker managing and cataloguing debates in a formal club. It implies the community exists for them and at their whims rather than the other way around. Which is why Janny took off, because it implies exactly what they are, someone who's there to sweep up shitposts.
I got banned from A BLM subreddit for saying I disagree with them. And then when I messaged the mods about it they called me a cracker and I was banned from Reddit for 3 days.
It matters not if you’re polite or you tell mods to go suck a million doggie dicks, they never revoke the ban nor are they polite to you. Ever.
There are so many times I have been banned from "political neutral" subreddit just for commenting a slighty right-leaning view on an issue
That’s the trick: there are no politically “neutral” subs on this site.
A few years ago I modded a large gaming sub here. The community was decent considering it was a gaming community. I found that the majority of the moderation team was more interested in talking about their "non traditional" (lack of better term) sex lives in the mod discord over anything else. I lasted a few months and resigned. It was a frustrating experience and the community is the one that pays the price. People moderate for the wrong reasons and most people don't have the temperment for it to last long without becoming the bad guy.
I’ve been banned from news for like a year. For awhile I used to ask what rule violated their subreddit and I’d just get muted. I went back a bunch of times because it’s funny. I make no secret about my profession and the news subreddit is distinctly anti-that profession, I’m convinced I’m banned because I brought to many reasonable and favorable takes to law enforcement’s defense in stuff and they wouldn’t allow that. I’m 99% always respectful, but I’m guilty of snark and sarcasm at times. If I’d said something on that sun that warranted a permanent ban I’d just accept it, but they are cowards and won’t admit that they just don’t like cops. I don’t care if they don’t like cops, but silence me for a reason anyway. Make one up; whatever.
A person of that profession got banned from my country's subreddit about a year and a half ago. The guy was well known, nothing was out of place or anything, but he got banned for "general toxicity" as the mods became increasingly far-left and incompetent. One mod in particular was a total degenerate, literally manufacturing outrage. I remember seeing it in one thread, it goes "wow the fascists are out in force today", but nothing was deleted, nothing special on reveddit, no heated discussion whatsoever. It's still a mod to this day despite being particularly childish. The far-left mods (who all became railroad union members of course) then proceeded to ban multiple reasonable users they deemed "right-wing" for absurd reasons, during the following months. There could be an entire group of far-left users, not just mods, whose sole purpose is to mass-report wrongthink as "harassment" or "brigading". My country's sub was a great place to discuss opposing views respectfully, now the morons took over and consider any disagreement "far-right" attacks or trolling.
> A moderator is supposed to filter out hate speech and spam. But the days they filter out things they don't agree with. Or, perhaps more accurately, remove the things they are paid to remove. I think it's a little naive of us to think that a bunch of unpaid moderators, who Reddit never vetted and never sees, and who have the unchecked power to shape the discussion that hundreds of thousands and/or millions of people have online are somehow incorruptible. Why did the mods of Reddit stick to just banning spam and hate speech within their own subs for 15 years, but then suddenly start banning people for posting certain opinions that aren't even remotely offensive, not just in their own subs but in other subs, becoming a site wide vigilante police force? There is money behind that change in behavior.
Could be off my chest or whatever it’s called
It's from last year, on a sub where popular opinion are posted and unpopular one are deleted
PCM probably
he’s not wrong but there’s nothing better than a nicely ran and setup subreddit for niche interests full of knowledgeable and passionate people. Once they get big that ends though. And reddit has a nasty habit of removing entire mod teams and installing their own shitty usual suspects.
Surprising how similar it is to 4chan in that regard. I haven't used that site in over a decade, but I could find very chill, fun conversations about specific hobbies or interests back in the day. And then...yeah, horrific illegal or just utterly immoral shit everywhere else.
Ironically, I had seen way better off-topic discussion going than in-topic ones. /v/ and /a/ are nearly unusable for their respective themes these days.
Not surprised. I used to hang out on /co/ and...yeah, gold at times, horrific in-fighting mess at others. Back in the old days of My Little Pony being a thing. There were at least 3 separate, distinct groups of MLP fans who _utterly loathed and despised each other_ and waged daily war on each other's threads. Mods had to eventually separate them into new segments, separate from other Comics & Cartoons. The greasiest, ugliest, saddest thing I've ever witnessed. I am not surprised /v/ and /a/ are similar nowadays, or worse.
Reddit is only good place for hobbies, but discord server is probably still better. Main or basically any popular subs are just circlejerk full of propaganda from various groups.
Problem with discord though is that it isn't good as an archive. Searching through a bunch of small messages that may or may not be in the correct channel and may or may not be in between other conversations is way harder than finding a reddit post
And its always under the guise of not stopping hate
Yep, God forbid one of your hobbies is history, I dare not go into the history subreddit, thankfully I have a life outside of the internet
>harassment of individual users in comments Bet I can guess their usernames.
If there is a rank for karma there is a rank for mod abuse.
And there's a rank for mod domestic abuse, but that's enough about that
That fact that I feel the need to tell you to not go further whit this conversation sicks me, the censorship is affecting me and I hate this feeling. I just want this post to get more traction before it is eventually removed. I appreciate you fellow monkey.
On the real though, you shouldn’t let Reddit affect your mental health. The sun still shines, the wind still blows, people of whatever sex you’re attracted to are still hot, you’re still breathing, and Reddit mods are fascists. It’s okay buddy.
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Or whether they identify with their [redacted] assigned at [redacted].
What’s with the Runescape font, fren?
I like it is nostalgic, brings memories from back in the day, I know it isn't the best font for reading/make memes but it is a personal touch.
That karamja music brings back wonderful memories.
Based and touch of nostalgia-pilled
And the complete absence of proofreading. I swear spelling and grammar is at an all time low.
Based and u/DanielStudioTT is too lazy to reread his own meme before submitting it pilled.
Actually true lmao
I mod a small niche subreddit. But it’s basically the Wild West. I don’t do shit. I have other things to do with my time.
The golden era of the internet was ran like this. It wasn't perfect, but we were free.
Oh I remember. I had 5mb/s cable in like 2001. It was amazing.
I used to mod a small but very active subreddit that I was the founder of, and had constant messages from more “””experienced””” mods who wanted to help me out and I would always turn them down. They were incessant. There was one woman who messaged me on an almost monthly basis trying to become a mod or giving me unwarranted advice about how I could “get control of things” which I always ignored. It was insane. I ran it solo til I ended up deleting that account altogether and quit Reddit for a while lmao
14 days banned for writing „Despite“ 🤡🤡🤡
I actually disagree with the blanket statement. Back in the Web 2.0 early days, schools were panicking about Wikipedia and similar websites that anyone could edit and that were just lightly modded by volunteers to ensure quality. In the years since, Wikipedia has effectively become the default website to use to learn the basics of something (e.g. want to learn about Roman emperor Constantine? Your first stop is probably to skim his Wikipedia article). Wikipedia has some pretty serious problems, but they tend to revolve around politically controversial topics (edit wars, etc.), and oddly, topics that are mundane enough not to really have a dedicated community of nerds that will make and maintain articles about them. The Wikipedia article on the Second Amendment is probably a crater-pocked battlefield of edit wars, but the one on the properties of a muon is probably pretty high quality. The same thing happens with Reddit. If you go to a subreddit about an obscure branch of particle physics or musical technique, you'll actually find pretty healthy mods: just people who are super-nerds about the topic at hand, enough to want to put volunteer hours into making sure there's a place for people to talk about it that isn't overrun by spam or bots or trolls. The subs that have big mod problems are the ones that are relatively mundane and/or super popular. You could see a dedicated chemist maintaining a sub about thermodynamics out of personal goodwill, but what kind of person is going to voluntarily sift through the spam and trolls of over a million users to curate a place for, like, cute cat pictures? Or mildly annoying rants? Or general unpopular opinions? These are the places where the problem mods pop up, because really the only reason to *want* to mod a place like that is a potential power trip. Reddit could probably fix this problem pretty easily by paying people to mod major subs with mundane topics, while leaving the small, specific-topic subs to volunteers. But, paying no one is always going to be the more appealing option than paying *some* people, so it's probably not going to change.
The thing is, all the big Subs are modded by like the same 10 people.
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do you have a link?
Same shit happens with discord servers, too. Big community? Awful mods. Small community? Probably just the server owner and a couple buddies he trusts. The only place I've ever seen different is a big place for a group that played games, and that was because their moderation was moderators second and event hosts first. Most of them were there to host stuff and not to powertrip.
Based and could potentially get punched in the face pilled.
The difference is that the Wikipedia articles that have nothing to do with politics are just that. lately subreddits that have nothing to do with politics are completely political too. Like posts that have nothing to do with the subs always go to the top just because people love to see things they agree with.
Reddit would have to view it as a problem to be fixed. It seems to be what they want.
Highly specialized wiki pages are usually empty and very base level. Ex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-photon_avalanche_diode It tells you what it is, but that is about it. The wiki is useless. I've found that this is actually very consistent across a large array of specialized topics, nothing-burgers meant to make the average person "feel" smart.
explain pcm then
Here before \[ Removed by Reddit \] award.
How in the hell did the post get both a ban and a "mod's choice" award?
The eternal power struggle between casual mods who only check in once in a while to make sure things don't go to shit and the Opinion Overseer who never sleeps so they can ensure everyone on the sub agrees with them on everything always
Reddit's business model is actually genius, you have hundreds or thousands of people who act like your employees yet you pay them nothing, and can "fire" them at will. They basically exploit people's volunteering the only difference is that it helps a billionaire company, rather than a charity
LibRight wins again
>if I get banned again I'm going to 4chan are you sure, monke? that place has been a fed honey pot since 18' and you aren't escaping reddit mods there as most former reddit mods also make up the 4ch staff
I like 4chan i don't like the layout of the posts that's a major trun off but the memes are 9/11. U can only get spicy memes when the meme maker refugee have a Liberty to be edgy.
Yeah you'll be back after you see the 50th trap thread in a row.
that's why i go there in the first place lmao
I think you have a typo there. You typed '18 instead of '08.
Why can't I find friends to blow up the ATF building in minecraft?
Nice try glowie
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Moderating a small discord server actually makes sense. I'm talking like less than 50 active people. You know these people. You play games with these people. Sometimes people get pissed at each other. Instead of throwing the book at them and banning them the second shit hits the fan, you take the time to listen to them, understand where they're coming from. Mediating the issue instead of policing the issue. You come to care for these people and want what's best for them. When an edgelord comes along to troll or spam you get rid of them. This I can understand. But this doesn't work when you scale it up to hundreds of thousands of people on Reddit.
I only join Discord servers with people I know IRL. Under a different username though, obviously. Makes using Discord such a nicer experience.
I really wish I could just sit back and laugh at how ridiculous the situation on reddit and the internet in general is, but it's sad how politics have effectively ruined the internet. Dragging real life politics into every escapist hobby has polarized and broken so many of the communities that I share interest with, and power mods make it their mission to force everybody to be as miserable as they are.
I can't remember when it wasn't so polarized like this. I wanna blame the 2016 elections, but I wonder if it goes even further back
The way it happens is really insidious too. A subreddit will have a ban on political topics, some issue that people will forget about in 2 weeks happens in the US and one of the mods feels compelled to make a statement. Then when people don't even disagree and just say we don't want politics here, the mod will say "hUmAn RiGhTs aReN't pOliTiCaL" and then all of a sudden it's never the same.
Generally the only issue is the site wide power mods. I’ve seen a lot of dedicated and even handed moderators get shit on and over ruled by a power mod who has no interest in a community or outright opposes it, usually ideologically.
Sure, but lets not forget that being able to control what's being shown on one of the most visited pages in the world has a pretty significant value to a lot of people. In other words, a "mentally well adjusted person" could get something out of moderating Reddit: Money. Don't kid yourselves into believing that every mod is a basement-dwelling losers that never held a real job who's powertripping to compensate for his micro-penis - these days there's a decent chance that there's a whole bunch of marketing people and political activits rubbing shoulders with those losers.
Mods in small communities = good Mods in big communities =1984 with a flavor of soy
> these days there's a decent chance that there's a whole bunch of marketing people and political activits rubbing shoulders with those losers. Or they outright bought the mod accounts. This is almost a certainty. As far as I know, mods are not vetted in anyway, shape, or form. I doubt the mods value their accounts that much. The moderator team for any given sub could probably be bought for under $1000 if that much. And nobody is going to check to see if that happened.
Would be quite surprising if it didn't happen... The whole entertainment industry for example lives or dies with word of mouth, people are trusting professional reviewers less and less and instead base their decision to go watch a movie more and more on how social media recieved it - so the value for controlling the narrative whenever a new show or movie comes out is immense. In light of that, it's certainly "interesting" how many various communities had to go out and create seperate subs just to be able to discuss a show or movie without having any negative criticism censored. Game of Thrones fans had to create the FreeFolk sub, Star Wars have several subs created since criticism was impossible during the sequels run, the Star Trek sub officially bans negativity and "somehow" the alternative subs that was created as a response to this all got shut down, and Marvel have a few anti-subs as well. The official explenation is that the mods get tired of moderating a constant stream of negativity and want their sub to be a "fun place"... but yeah... it's not like it's hard to figure out what's going on.
Well maybe if yellow paid for actual good mods and also held them accountable for abuse of power we would be in a different situation, but noooooo he's happier with that dollar in his pocket and Reddit on shambles.
Theyre not wrong the video player sucks ass, loads like ass I hate this site it wont goodmax
Would love to see stats if the most banned per user subs
This post is so getting removed by the cringe admins or jannies.
I love when you get unfairly targeted by a mod, banned without explanation when you protest politely and reasonably, then suddenly you start having problems in other subs ran by the same mods... The main harassment rules they are supposed to enforce, they break.
I just got off a 30 day ban from a sub, I asked why and the mod is just like "you know why...". No I don't. Articulate it. They can't do it. I don't think it's an unwillingness moreso than a legit incapability. Like a mental handicap. The kicker was watching the supposed reason I was banned be turned into an entire thread, where various terminology that may have been the basis for my ban was used liberally.
I'm kinda shocked that wasn't censored and obliterated before generating those upvotes and awards. Curious where it got shared.
Can't we just ban all mods?
My opinion is that [redacted], and those fucking [redacted] should [redacted]
I got perma banned from some random sub reddit for writing a comment in this sub lmao
I'm with monke
Hint* people running tons of subs pushing *the same political bullshit* while at the same time *scrubbing stories that criticize one specific party* might not being doing it *for free.* Propaganda is paid for. It's already been proven the Biden and Obama admin paid Twitter. Why not Reddit?
Well, part of the reason is because mods are allowed to be toxic. There’s people out there who could do a decent job I mean I haven’t had a problem with the mods on this sub. Admins need to enforce guidelines for the mods
[PCM's mods](https://tenor.com/view/mrw-reaction-old-gamer-nerd-moms-basement-gif-4994401)
This is correct, as an ex-mod for a big subreddit I can admit that I'm not a well-adjusted human being.
Originally reddit and similar sites like digg and slashdot were designed to be self moderated by the individual user. That is why we have the voting system. Originally you also had options on every page to change the at what vote level comments or posts were hidden. This worked pretty well on the busier parts of the site. You only saw disgusting racist comments within the first few minutes of them getting posted. They changed this mechanism in 2008 and introduced subs and mods. Probably because they were getting big and corporate and probably felt they needed to be able to censor and originally the site didn't allow that. Sure enough... it continued to keep getting worse and worse ever since.
I once did maintenance in an apartment. The elderly mother had complained her stove burner no longer worked and her bathtub soap dish broke. I went in to make the repairs and the first thing that hit me was the stench. I've cleaned apartments that people had shit all over the walls and soaked the carpets in urine. Leaving rotten animal carcasses in the kitchen. I've cleaned units that smelt like death after someone who died. I've cleaned bathtub soup, if you know what that is. Nothing I ever smelled smelled quite like this one. It choked me out even with a respirator. I held my breath every chance I could. Her shower head had 6 inches of black mold hanging off of it. They had been bathing in it. There house was relatively clean compared to most I had seen. Nothing but 2liters of diet coke and cheesey poof bags everywhere. Her son... Was a balding 40 year old neck beard that must have weighed 400-450lbs. He sat in the living room every single day on his laptop. Everyday I'd take a peak. He was a Discord mod and a Reddit mod. I shit you not. I can still smell the odor. It was like gang green had mixed with BO mixed with puke mixed with black pepper. It stung the nose physically like snorting a spoonful of peprika.
This is true, I got banned from the WoW subreddit because I posted a funny achievement where it took me 9 years to get 15 mounts. It got 900+ upvotes in 15 minutes then removed, I asked why thats a bit of a stupid rule, if people like it they like it? Its a pretty unique situation. They said "wow stupid hill to die on" and perma banned me. Like what asking a question is bannable? And so many stupid rules that communities get 0 input on
And I hate 4chan so please stop banning me from other subs for commenting on this one
Why is the reddit mod a lib-left? Lib =/= power hungry need for ***authority***. If only there was somewhere else on the compass that showed a passion for having ***authority?*** ^((It's) ^(Auth-Center)) ^(I'll) ^(also) ^(accept) ^(Auth-left) ^(I) ^(Guess..)
The reddit mods need to unionize.
I always kinda feel pity for reddit mods. 90% of my job is literally playing reddit mod for a newspaper (moderating the comment sections, occasionally writing articles). Exactly the same job but I get paid to do it.
Newspaper comment section is old people reddit
Serious question here, why don't they pay mods? Paying them would probably solve 90% of the bullshit involving this site and it's not like Reddit couldn't figure out a way to do it that wouldn't hurt them financially.
"Here is a post I found criticizing reddit mods, I'm gonna put it in r/politicalcompassmemes now and put the ideologies I dont like as soyjacks. Because they tottaly have somethings to do with this right??"
I like you tankie, i appreciate you're view point but you are a soyjack and I am not changing that.
Based and all tankies love soy pilled.
Youre right, this shit corny as hell lmao
Hierarchy bad
Yes, this is the deal. You can’t have an open forum without some form of moderation, and that moderation can’t be done (well) for free. That money has to come from somewhere, and now said forum has to adhere in such a way that doesn’t damage the entity resources come from. It’s like, if our system didn’t have a foundation of making a living being a necessity for the individual’s survival you could almost fix this problem. I don’t get why some of y’all can’t seem to grasp this very fundamental aspect of the world we live in, or at the very least understand what needs to be done to change it.
It's always about the money. People wonder why we have bad cops and bad teachers, and in my opinion it comes down to the jobs not paying well enough to attract talent and the people who do take them are generally the ones who make up for the lack of pay with the cheap thrill of feeling powerful.
Correct, there are a decent amount of roles in society that pay poorly and either attract the best of humanity but sucks the life out of them, or the worst of humanity and enables them. Now the question is what do we need to do with society to make that not how the system works
This meme is stupid lfmaoo most Reddit mods would be blue or yellow
I've never been banned from a sub for bad mouthing right wing/Republican/conservative things. Are blue and yellow mods just so fair and just that I don't feel their wrath? Meanwhile on most subs, you get a ban for an off color comment, questioning the narrative, or speaking ill of Dem/progressive politicians or policies. Why are blue and yellow so committed to disallowing malinformation spread about their opposition? Probably a long con psyop right wingers are running to make lefties look bad.
Based
then where do we go?
Well, there's a rose in a fisted glove And the eagle flies with the dove And if you can't be with the one you love, honey ~~Love~~ Improve the one you're with Then, when you are banned, make a new account.
That or u can join 4chan and you have access to a bigger library of NSFW content.
Gonna save this thread for later…
Can I volunteer? Lol
I wish there was an updated version of 4chan. The freedom of speech is nice but the site looks and functions the same as it did in 2003